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This week's #PaperILike is "Hi Robot: Open-Ended Instruction Following with Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models" (Shi et al., ICML 2025). I'm often asked: how might we combine ideas from hierarchical planning and VLAs? This is a good start! PDF: arxiv.org/abs/2502.19417

PhD position available ! - Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents (eg. robots :) - Please distribute

PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social - please contact me ASAP if you are interested ! sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

Full Professor position in AI/CS -- Deadline for applications 23rd June!

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The regular submission deadline for SIGdial 2025 has now passed... But we are still welcoming submissions through ACL Rolling Review 🎉 ARR Commitment Deadline: June 6th Acceptance notifications will be on June 20th, and then SIGdial will be held in Avignon, France: August 25th - 27th

Oh yes, here's the link to the actual pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2504.08590

🚨 New pre-print! (Well, new & much improved version in any case.) 🚨 If you're interested in LLM post-training techniques and in how to make LLMs better "language users", read this thread, introducing the "LM Playpen".

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Job advert! Chair (full professor) in AI at Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social Learn more & apply here: enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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In a nutshell — here’s what we are working on at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and the National Robotarium - our Research Themes @heriotwattuni.bsky.social #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD thenationalrobotarium.com/research-the...

New - PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

New - PhD position in Generative AI for Embodied Collaborative Agents: #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social sites.google.com/site/hwinter...

We are hiring ! new faculty positions in AI, NLP, interactive robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML @heriotwattuni.bsky.social enzj.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

SIGDIAL 2025 will be in Avignon #NLProc #HRI #AI #ML 2025.sigdial.org

Roboverse: unified simulation + dataset + benchmarking that supports many different robotics simulators including nvidia omniverse. One step closer to robotics getting its mmlu, maybe.

Please share it within your circles! edin.ac/3DDQK1o

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1. Humans are incredibly flexible and able to fill the ability gaps in any systems faster than research will. 2. We want to be creative, solve problems, etc. We want assistants, not replacements.

Call for Papers and Demos @cvprconference.bsky.social: on topics such as streaming vision-language models, real-time activity understanding, grounding, ego-centric video understanding, language and robot learning. Contributions are encouraged to include a demo! Link: varworkshop.github.io/calls/

Interesting postdoc position in Edinburgh : "create a new framework for visual scene understanding through interactive, collaborative storytelling between humans and robots. ... support real-world applications in education, healthcare, and assistive technology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLY748/r...

Registration is open for the following ELLIS Summer Schools: 🇨🇭 Unit Lausanne / @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social on ML & AI for Health 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Unit Manchester on ML for Healthcare & Biology 🇩🇪 @ellisunitjena.bsky.social on AI for Earth & Climate Sciences Get links for more details and registration:

Summer School in Robotics! Edinburgh, 2-6 June 2025. Topics: generative AI for robotics, bioinspired robotics, HRI, verification and safety #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML#PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social ukrss.site.hw.ac.uk

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Neurosymbolic Methods for Trustworthy and Interpretable AI – special track—

I'm not on X, so I'll use the opportunity of @karpathy.bsky.social 's post over there to plug our "clembench" project here. We've been doing exactly this--evaluating LLMs w/ conversational games--since early 2023, with several papers out by now (e.g. EMNLP 23). clembench.github.io

Deadline for PhD applications 16 February 2025 www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

Summer School in Robotics! Edinburgh, 2-6 June 2025. Topics: generative AI for robotics, bioinspired robotics, HRI, verification and safety #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML#PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social ukrss.site.hw.ac.uk

Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment -- september 2025 intake now open! #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social Learn more & apply here: www.edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

Today, we are releasing MSTS, a new Multimodal Safety Test Suite for vision-language models! MSTS is exciting because it tests for safety risks *created by multimodality*. Each prompt consists of a text + image that *only in combination* reveal their full unsafe meaning. 🧵

Financial Assistance applications are now open! If you face financial barriers to attending ICLR 2025, we encourage you to apply. The program offers prepay and reimbursement options. Applications are due March 2nd with decisions announced March 9th. iclr.cc/Conferences/...

I just randomly found this book on my bookshelf. It must have been transported there from an alternate timeline. “20 years of research on agents”? Preposterous! We all know that the very idea of software agents has only been invented last year by the LLM folks!

It's an honour to be elected a Fellow of @ellis.eu in the Multimodal Learning Systems Program. Looking forward to contributing further to the thriving AI community in Europe #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML #CrossBorderCollab #PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social ellis.eu/programs/mul...

Second call for participation in the 12th dialogue system technology challenge. sites.google.com/dstc.communi... The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. IMPORTANT DATES * Training data release: Jan 14th * Test data release: Mar 1st

"the real-world impact of AI systems often lags behind what might be expected based on impressive benchmark scores. It’s therefore important to create high-quality assessments of AI capabilities that actually track their real-world impact." alignment.anthropic.com/2025/recomme...

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Very important work

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Maybe this is a niche area, but I'm curious who else is on here! Feel free to poke me to add you! go.bsky.app/5KCtepm

As "X is all you need" and "Transformers are Y" paper titles have died, I propose that we similarly retire: - X of thought - Chain of Y - "[topic] a comprehensive survey" where [topic] is exclusively post-2022 papers - Claims of reasoning/world model/planning based on private defns of one

Brilliant idea, would be nice to add variation in the synthesized voices also.

Taking a stand that we aren’t doing the #nlproc tag here. It’s #nlp. We used #nlproc because a decade ago the #nlp tag was full of sleazy scammers selling guides for hypnotizing women into sleeping with you. But guess what? We won. All the sleazy scammers are doing natural language processing now.

What type of human is primarily behind the design of AI? Both parts of @dorianlynskey.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social's considered look at the history and potential impact of AI are available to listen to now ⬇️ listen.podmasters.uk/os241113ai2?...